From the cover: “The first edition of this Manual appeared some 16 years ago and later editions were widely used as books of instruction during the Second World War. Considerable developments in engine design and a variety of applications took place during the period covered by the preceding five editions. In more recent years, however, the pace has, far from slackening, actually accelerated, so that the fundamental background of oil engine design has undergone considerable changes. The number of manufacturers has varied, whilst their power ranges have been made more extensive, even though the actual number of engine models has decreased somewhat through rationalization.

This new edition of “The Oil Engine” Manual has been very largely rewritten to cover changes occurring during the past five years. It is now fully up-to-date, as is only possible when the work is produced in the office of a journal dealing with the subject on a full time and highly specialized basis.

Chapters in the first part of the Manual give the background for engine design (of various forms) for all duties other than marine applications. In the second part, leading details are given of all the current makes of oil engine constructed in the United Kingdom, again for all purposes other than ship and boat duties. The third and final part is a technical appendix, which will be found useful, not only for those concerned with engine manufacture, but for those engaged in the use of such prime movers. Students also will find the whole book of permanent value to them in their work relating to this type of heat engine.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Purple boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XXX] 330 [XVI] pages. Tags: internal combustion engines fuel-injection systems starting and stopping oil pressure-charging lubrication power station layout equipment utilization exhaust jacket-water heat stationary industrial vertical vee-form horizontal transport railway traction road vehicle tractor units denys stephen dodsley williams P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?The National Dream: The Great Railway 1871-1881 AND The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton (£62.00)Publisher: McClelland & Stewart — 1977Binding: Hardback [ISBN: 0771013264]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good Slip Case.Description: Both volumes are later printings. Illustrated / decorative end papers.Notes: Size: 9¾" x 6½". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XIII] 439 / [XII] 4 pages. Tags: canada canadian company government history pacific politics railroads railway state studies P&P: UK 1st £9.00. UK 2nd £9.24. EU Surface £14.26. EU Air £14.10. ROW Surface £14.26. ROW Air £26.72Click Image or Pop Window?Spirit of the Somerset & Dorset Railway by Alan Hammond (£54.00)Publisher: Millstream Books — 2003Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0948975660]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly pulled at the head of the upper panel otherwise a very well presented copy of this uncommon title. Description: A limited printing of 2500 copies of which this is number 252. Jacket illustration: Signalman Joe Crouchman, seen talking to driver Aubrey Pearce, and fireman Wally Moon enjoy the summer sunshine at Midsomer Norto on 3rd July 1961. Class 3F 0-6-0T No. 47316 (formerly S&DJR No. 25) pilots 7F 2-8-0 No. 53810 down to Radstock, its home shed. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: “This is the third in the series of photographic records of the Somerset & Dorset Railway by Alan Hammond. As with his previous books, the emphasis is on images of railwaymen and women working on the line. Most of the photographs come from private collections and provide a fascinating insight into the day-today running of this much-loved line.

There are anecdotes, too. Eight personal memories enhance the story, with many a tale from Bath, Wincanton, Sturminster Newton, Blandford and Branksome, among others. There is the tragic story of how a ganger fell to his death from a railway trolley at Kilver Street Viaduct, and the more amusing episode when lumps of coal lobbed off an engine for the crossing-keeper at Lamyatt Road broke down his front door. There is a personal memory of idyllic childhood visits to the signalbox at Midford and a wartime account of coming under fire from a German plane at Highbridge. The stories and photographs together provide a heart-warming recollection of this lost world.

From the cover: “Too many railway histories concentrate on locomotives, with perhaps an occasional brief mention of the engine drivers or firemen. Too often the men and women who worked behind the scenes are forgotten — the fitters, the tube blowers, the shunters, the booking clerks, the refreshment room staff, without whom the railways could not have functioned. This book, while not neglecting the locomotive scene, sets out principally to describe how one small part of Britain’s railway network operated, and what life was like for all the employees on the railway.

Bath Green Park station and motive power depot provide the basis for the story though this is not just another Somerset & Dorset book. The S&D plays its part but in partnership with the Midland Railway’s Mangotsfield and Bath Branch, a relatively little known but equally hardworking component of the railway scene in Bath.

In this essentially human tale, we meet 14 year old call boys whose duties included ‘knocking up’ train crews in the small hours of the morning, and foreman Tom Rudd, famous for drinking his tea straight from the pot. We hear of train workings known as The Fish and Chip Special, The Ghost Train and The Rabbits, and of goose plucking in Weston signal box. Here is the story of the ordinary working people of the railways, the story of a way of life which has all but disappeared.”Notes: Size: 11" x 8¾". Orange boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 199 pages. Tags: midland railway somerset dorset company history railroads britain england bath employees railways green park station motive power depot goods yards sidings oldfield tunnels weston train timetables 1953 P&P: UK 1st £5.25. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £7.76. EU Air £7.85. ROW Surface £7.76. ROW Air £14.22Click Image or Pop Window?The Institute Of Engineering Inspection Proceedings Session 1929-1930 by Anon. (£33.00)Publisher: London: The Institute Of Engineering Inspection — 1931Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with some fading. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and fold-outs. • The Chemical Laboratory In Inspection By E. F. Law • Saws; Their Manufacture And Some Hints On Their Use By T. W. Willis • The Anderson Rotary Piston Engine By John H. Clarke • Optical Aids To Engineering Inspection By Professor A. F. C. Pollard • Centrifugal Borehole And Deepwell Pumping Machinery By J. J. O’Neal • The Trend Of Development In Railway Signalling By Capt. B. H. Peter • List Of Council, 1930-1931 •Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 175 pages. Tags: chemical laboratory inspection law manufacture rotary piston engine optical aids engineering centrifugal borehole deepwell pumping machinery development railway signalling council P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive by Robert Young (£31.50)Publisher: Shildon 'Stockton & Darlington Railway' Jubilee Committee — 1975Binding: Paperback [ISBN: B000861EJC]Condition: Very Good. Wraps lightly dog-eared eotherwise a very well presented copy.Description: When Robert Young's book was first published in 1923 it not only filled a gap in the history of the locomotive but drew attention to the inspired and prodigious work of a hitherto rather neglected engineer. When the Stockton and Darlington Railway was officially opened in 1825 Timothy Hackworth had already been appointed Superintendent of Permanent and Locomotive Engines. In 1826 he took his small staff to Shildon where he set up the first railway workshops. 406pp. Size: 8vo Demy (8½" x 5½")Tags: Stockton Darlington Locomotive Engines railway B000861EJC P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Lamberhurst Book of Remembrance by Barbara Uren (£29.00)Publisher: Self Published — 1989Binding: Paperback Condition: Very Good. Upper wrapper slighty curled, slightly dog-eared at the top corner. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;Notes: Size: 10¼" x 8¼". 164 pages. Tags: uren east sussex england great britain memorial boards parish church died war battlefields western front gallipoli mesopotamia iraq military medal royal air force one tank regiment burma siam railway river kwai P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Celebration of the Somerset and Dorset Railway by Alan Hammond (£28.00)Publisher: Bath: Millstream Books — 2006Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0948975768]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: A limited printing of 2,500 copies of which this is number 1128. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Maps [1];

From the cover: “Sunday 6th March 1966 was the saddest day in the history of the Somerset & Dorset Railway — the day when the Beeching axe fell and the final passenger trains powered their way over the Mendip Hills and across the Somerset Levels.

Forty years on, there is life again. No fewer than four separate organisations are working hard to preserve all that this cross-country branch stood for. And thanks to the continuing efforts of Alan Hammond to record the memories and images of those who worked on the line, more people than ever have discovered the magic of the S&D. This splendid fifth album of photographs and stories brings alive again what has made the railway so special for so many and provides a most fitting 40th anniversary celebration.

This was truly a family line, both for the many generations of different families who gave their working lives to it and in the spirit of unity which pervaded all its operations. It is that spirit which shines out from the wonderfully evocative photographs in the book.

Nowhere is that spirit of the S&D better displayed than in the accounts of the six young firemen as they learnt the joys and trials of coaxing their locomotives over some of the toughest terrain and in so doing established long-lasting friendships with many a driver.

Forty years on, too, we celebrate England’s great World Cup football triumph and it is fitting that one of the heroes of 1966, Alan Ball, should write the delightful foreword for this Celebration.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Alan Ball. Size: 11" x 8¾". Yellow boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 160 pages. Tags: somerset dorset joint railway history railroads england central bristol exeter highbridge brunel broad gauge evercreech bath coalfields radstock mendip hills engines rolling stock victorian politics 9780948975769 P&P: UK 1st £5.25. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £7.76. EU Air £7.85. ROW Surface £7.76. ROW Air £14.22Click Image or Pop Window?A Bibliography of British Railway History by George Ottley (£25.00)Publisher: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (Edinburgh) — 1983Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0112903347]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Fold-Out Chronological Tables [1];Notes: Foreword or introduction by Profeesor Jack Simmons. Size: 10" x 6¼". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 683 pages. Tags: railroads great britain history bibliography science museum national railway services bibliographies P&P: UK 1st £6.75. UK 2nd £6.68. EU Surface £10.36. EU Air £10.35. ROW Surface £10.36. ROW Air £19.22Click Image or Pop Window?Superheating on Locomotives: The Why and Wherefore of Superheated Steam, Advantages, Economics and Special Problems, History and Development of the Superheater Locomotive, Principal Superheater Designs in Use, the Maintenance of Superheater Locomotives by J. F. [John Francis] Gairns (£23.00)Publisher: London; Calcutta: Locomotive Publishing Company Ltd.; The Indian Railway Gazette — 1911Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Poor. Heavily faded at the spine. Hinges weak throughout, exposed at the rear. Pocket is reinforced with what appears to be edges of postal stamp sheets. The fold-out diagram is split at several of the folds, a little unevenly creased if clean overall. Description: Publishing date unstated, dated from references. Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Cutaways; Maps in folder [1];Notes: Size: 7½" x 5". Bevelled Green boards with Gilt titling to the Upper Board. 99 [XII] pages. Tags: steam locomotives, superheated steam, maintenance superheater locomotives, motorcars, heating, railway locomotives, books written [john francis] gairns P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?Attack on the Somme by Edward G. D. Living (£21.00)Publisher: SPA Books/Tom Donovan Military Books — 1986Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 090759011X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and top corners with commensurate ruffling to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: From the cover: “Edward Living’s ‘Attack On The Somme’ was one of the earliest published books by a Serviceman recounting a personal tale of that terrible conflict. This is one man’s view of July 1st 1916, the first day of one of the most massive offensives in the history of modern war. The great struggle over the Somme was to drag on all through the summer of 1916 and was brought to a standstill by the winter weather in November. During these months the number of casualties incurred by both sides reached an incredible 1,300,000.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by John Masefield. Size: 8" x 5". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 90 pages. Tags: 12th 1916 56th abbeville accrington aisne alan alanbrooke albert alice allenby alley also america amiens ancre and andn anzac argyll armies army arras arrow artillery attack australian barnsley basil battalion battalions battle beach bertie bloch blunden bombardments border bottomley bouchavesnes bouzincourt bradford brigade brigades british brooke brophy brown buchan bucket bucquoy P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?History of the Great Western Railway [3 Volumes] by Peter Semmens (£21.00)Publisher: London: Guild Publishing — 1985Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Volume I: Consolidation 1923-29; Volume II: The Thirties 1930-39; Volume III Wartime and the Final Years 1939-48; Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Tables;Notes: Size: 9" x 7¾". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 102/96/102 pages. Tags: western railway britain history england services enthusiasts gwr nationalisation railways locomotives war road transport electrification P&P: UK 1st £6.75. UK 2nd £6.68. EU Surface £10.36. EU Air £10.35. ROW Surface £10.36. ROW Air £19.22Click Image or Pop Window?Odd Corners of the Great Western Railway from the Days of Steam by Kevin Robertson (£19.00)Publisher: Sutton Publishing — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 075091940X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Diagrams; Maps; Tables;

From the cover: “In his new book Kevin Robertson has brought together a fascinating collection of previously unpublished facts and photographs to throw new light on the long history of the Great Western Railway. He has drawn on hitherto inaccessible sources and has chosen to illustrate and record many unusual aspects of the GWR which have been overlooked in other works devoted to this famous company.

The book covers subjects as diverse as experimental signal design, station furniture, the petrol railcar, the 1930s camping coach and even the GWR’s accident record -hitherto considered exemplary. It illustrates the stations and the staff and above all the locomotives and the roiling stock upon which the high reputation of the company depended.

Odd Corners of the GWR will be entertaining and informative reading for everyone who has a sense of railway history. It will be especially valuable for enthusiasts who are keen to learn more about the background to the success of the GWR during the great age of British railways.”Notes: Size: 10¾" x 8". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 146 pages. Tags: 9780750919401 0942 great britain history railroads transportation engineering technology specific events topics railway trades transport industr kevin robertson 075091940x first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Great Railway Journeys of the World: An Encyclopedia of the World's Best Locomotive Journeys by Max Wade-Matthews (£18.50)Publisher: London: Lorenz — 1998Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1859676928]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine and onto the very margins of the dust wrapper. Laminate is lifting slightly at the bottom corner of the upper panel otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: “There are few finer experiences than the thrill of a classic railway journey. This remains as true today as it was in 1825, when Stephenson’s Rocket first steamed its way from Stockton to Darlington.

Great Railway Journeys of the World describes 95 outstanding railway journeys, experienced first-hand by a team of expert writers. Some of the journeys are quite short but steeped in history, notably the railway down India’s once perilous Khyber Pass; and the narrow-gauge line that carried gold prospectors from the port of Skagway to Whitehorse, in the Yukon. Others, such as the transcontinental lines of Australia and Canada, the Hastern and Oriental Express from Singapore to Bangkok, and the Red Arrow’s journey from Brussels to Hong Kong, cover thousands of kilometres.

For luxury and romance there is nothing to match the Orient Express, the Blue Train from Cape Town to Pretoria, or the wonderfully nostalgic “Palace on Wheels” in Rajasthan; while the many extraordinary feats of engineering described include the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostock, the Trans-Ancline Railway in Chile with its 26 tunnels in 70 km (44 miles), and the Brazilian line from Santos where the carriages are still hoisted up the Serro do Mar on a rope. For lovers of the latest and fastest trains, there is the high-speed line from Tokyo to Osaka, or London to Bern by Furostar and TGV — while on many other journeys the trains are still hauled, on gauges broad and narrow, by lovingly preserved steam locomotives.

From the cover: “This book is the first ever published work devoted entirely to the history of Shirehamp-ton, and comes in response to public demand. Shirehampton Story is a natural follow-up to the Author’s previous books, Avonmouth Story published in 1977 and Down the ‘Mouth in 1981.

These pages trace Shirehampton from earliest times, and give a detailed account of King’s Weston and the Parish Church of St. Mary, besides short histories of Shirehamp-ton’s other Churches, including the Quakers. Chapters are devoted to the River Avon, Road Links, Inns and Public Houses besides Old Residences of which Shirehampton could once boast so many, and which have all now mostly vanished.

This book recalls the life and times when Shirehampton was still a comparatively small rural Village (and an aristocratic Village at that) before the advent of the Railway and the coming of the Docks at Avonmouth, which brought about such a drastic change in the Shirehampton scene.

Shirehampton Story is a book long since overdue, and will at last dispel any criticism that the history of Shirehampton has not been written down.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Brown boards with Dark Brown titling to the Spine. 208 pages. Tags: shirehampton gloucestershire, shirehampton, history, england history, avon bristol shirehampton, first edition books, signed author, books written ethel thomas, 0950747718 P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan, 1894-1945 by Edited by S. L. Mayer (£16.00)Publisher: Bison Books — 1985Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0861241428]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little rubbed at the edges, short closed and tape-reinforced to the spine ends. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Reprint. [First: 1984 thus, previously published as ‘The Japanese War Machine’ in 1976] Maps to the endpapers. Illustrated with photographs, in colour & black and white. From the cover: “In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummelled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific — the Japanese War Machine.

The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world’s leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. The drama of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria, the take-over of the State by the Army, the invasion of China, the simultaneous attack on Malaya, Hawaii, the Philippines and the oil-rich Dutch East Indies is told in all the horror and shock the Japanese invader placed before Western eyes. The fall of Singapore and Hong Kong, the conquest of Burma and Indo-China took place within a hundred days. The flag of the Rising Sun ruled a maritime empire from the Russian border to the gates of Australia, from Burma to Midway.

But the strength of the Japanese War Machine depended on Japanese industrial power, which in the end, was no match for the United States and its Allies. The Japanese soldier, infused with the warrior code of Bushido fought hard and long in New Guinea’s jungles; as the struggle was brought closer to Japan’s home islands, the Japanese soldier fought on tenaciously in the Philippines and on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The air forces began suicide missions, thekamikaze, which drove into Allied aircraft, heroically and fanatically.. .but all too little, too late. The nuclear holocaust, which ended World War II, left a ruined Japan and a wrecked Japanese War Machine.

THE RISE AND FALL OF IMPERIAL JAPAN is the tragic and noble history of a gallant people led into a misguided war. The millions who suffered in Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the Japanese War Machine bear silent tribute to its folly.”Notes: Size: 12" x 8½". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Tags: accord admiral agreement aircraft airfield aizaka akagi akatsuki akitsuki alamein aleutian alliance amagi ambassador amphibious anglo-japanese anti-comintern araki archipelago arima arisaka aritomo armada arsenal auchinleck aung baldwin baltic batavia battlecruisers battles battleships bernardino biak bilateral bismarck blarney blenheim bmw bose bougainville brooke-popham burma-siam camp cape carriers chandra changi changkufeng changsha chennault P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Employer's Challenge by H. A. Clegg; Rex Adams (£15.50)Publisher: Basil Blackwell — 1957Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good - in Good+ DJ. Unlaminated dustwrapper a little edgeworn and faded with some nicks at the head, tail and the tips. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Signed by the author [Rex Adams] on the first blank — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. A study of the National Shipbuilding and Engineering dispute of 1957. From the introduction: “During 1956 the Leverhulme Trustees made a grant to Nuffield College for research in industrial relations over a period of seven years. The College thereupon began to plan projects to be carried out within the terms of the grant, and work commenced in the autumn of 1956. When a national shipbuilding strike was called in March 1957, and followed by an engineering strike, it seemed such an important event within the field of industrial relations that other work was temporarily laid aside to permit us to concentrate on a study of the strike. This book is the result.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 179 pages. Tags: indusrial relations industrial peace war-time system wage policies the labour government pattern wage increases conservative wage policies engineering shipbuilding industries collective bargaining price-freeze wage negotiations unions trades union congress strike engineering wage settlements t.u.c. british employers’ confederation chancellor nationalized boards association british chambers commerce national union manufacturers price stability private industry macmillan industrial disputes tribunal petrol duty railway staff national union railwaymen ministry labour shipbuilding court inquiry P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?British Railways: Steam and Traction in Colour by Colin Boocock & Brian Morrison (£14.50)Publisher: Promotional Reprint Company — 1991Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1856480143]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Description: First in this edition. [First: Ian Allan, 1986] Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Tables;

From the cover: “This pictorial record of British Railways covers four eventful decades of that much-maligned but nevertheless vital organisation.

The central characters are, as always, the trains and the locomotives that haul them.

From the austere days of the early Nationalisation era, to the more colourful but uncertain railway scene of recent years, the image of the rolling stock constantly changes — grimy black steam locos with ‘blood-and-custard’ carriages give way to the Diesel era, and the sterile uniformity of Corporate Blue livery is in turn replaced by an explosion of exciting new colour schemes, reflecting the revised structure of BR, which may ultimately signal a return to some form of private ownership.”Notes: Size: 11¾" x 8¾". Pictorial boards. 256 pages. Tags: 9781856480147 transportation railroads trains railways interest colin boocock 1856480143 first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?From Rocket To Railcar by L. E. Snellgrove (£14.50)Publisher: Longmans — 1963Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Unlaminated DJ a little edgeworn and faded with some very small nicks to to and bottom edges. Text bright and tight.Description: An illustrated history of the railway, specially written for young people. It tells the exciting story of railway development from Trevithick's iron monster at Penydaren to the vast electric and diesel- operated networks of today. It is a tale of men, machines and companies set against the background of the social changes they caused. Illustrated with B&W photographs and diagrams.Notes: Size: 8" x 5½". 123 pages. Tags: Snellgrove railway gauge steam diesel locomotive british rail stephenson P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Age of Machinery by Alexander R. Horne (£14.50)Publisher: Blackie & Son — UndatedBinding: Hardback Condition: Good. Spine faded. Mildly bumped at head & tail of spine and corners. Wrinkle to the centre of the upper board. Tape remnants to pastedown. Address sticker to ffep. Pages gently age-tanned.Description: Blue coth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. Illustrated with B&W photographs. The Forces of Nature turned to the Service of Man. In this book some ordinary useful applications of the sciences are explained in simple language.Notes: Size: 7¼" x 5". 208 pages. Tags: coal steam metals gases gas engines compressed air railway motor car electicity electric currents building ships navy P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur (£14.00)Publisher: Time Warner — 2005Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0316861421]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and top corners with commensurate ruffling to the dust wrapper. Leans slightly. Edges of the text block lightly tanned.Description: From the cover: “Many of the British, Australian and American prisoners held by the Japanese during the Second World War were so scarred by their experiences that afterwards they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment by Japanese and Korean guards was, literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death or transported on ‘hellships’, and used as slave labour — most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway — and how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture and execution to keep secret diaries and make sketches and drawings that they hid from the guards wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion: how the men cared for the sick; risked death to steal from the Japanese; staged shows, concerts and cricket matches in the jungle; made secret radios; and how the doctors operated — and saved lives — with razors and butcher’s saws. When men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent understanding of what solidarity, friendship and kindness to others can mean. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners on which Surviving the Sword is based will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 495 pages. Tags: 1937-1945 1939-1945 and asia atrocities battles campaigns conflict conscript east europe european general history japan japanese labor military other prisoners prisons second sino-japanese war world P&P: UK 1st £5.25. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £7.76. EU Air £7.85. ROW Surface £7.76. ROW Air £14.22Click Image or Pop Window?The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies (£14.00)Publisher: Aurum Press — 2011Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1845136292]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a vertical crease the length of the spine. Leans slightly. Foredge of the text block slight grubby. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. [XIX] 486 pages. Tags: gillies 1845136292 world war prisoners prisons pow camps great britain social life customs thailand burma railway changi gaol red cross parcel stalag colditz allied servicemen held captive during japanese camp P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Golden Years of British Steam Trains: Colin Garratt On the Work of A. W. V. Mace by Colin Garratt (£14.00)Publisher: Milepost 92½ — 1995Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1900193051]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: “The Golden Years of British Steam Trains contains two hundred and fifty glorious pictures, magnificently printed in Duotone recalling the living vitality of the steam age during its most exciting years. The pictures have been chosen by Colin Garratt from the collection of the late Rev. A. W. V. Mace and grouped into sections of the big four companies; L. M. S. , G. W. R. , S. R. and L. N. E. R. These companies operated from 1923 until the formation of British Railways in 1948. This twenty five year period was the high summer of steam railway operation when the most technically advanced designs worked in contrast with a plethora of ancient types dating back to the individual designs of the separate companies of pre 1923.

Arthur Mace travelled widely across Britain capturing the vibrant spirit of this exciting period. The matchless photography contained within these covers rates him as a leading name in the history of railway photography notwithstanding that he was relatively unknown until Milepost took over the responsibility for his pictorial legacy and published the first volume of his work in 1994.”Notes: Size: 11¾" x 9". Pictorial boards. Tags: 9781900193054 great britain history otives pictorial works railroads transportation trains railways interest photography street-railroads trams golden age mace arthur railway colin garratt 1900193051 first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Trains We Loved by David St John Thomas & Patrick Whitehouse (£14.00)Publisher: David & Charles — 1994Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0715302922]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Plates;

From the cover: “Do you remember the days when the train journey was the best part of the holiday? When the great named expresses, hauled by the most powerful steam locomotives ever built, ran to time-honoured patterns? When trains formed of yesteryear’s rolling stock criss-crossed the land on well-ordered branch lines, calling at strings of picturesque stations commanded by proud station-masters?

Although many hark back to an even earlier age, half remembered or known from tales handed down by father or grandfather, few would argue that the finest days of railway travel began towards the end of the steam era and carried on into the period of nationalisation. BR continued to build steam locomotives on a grand scale, even manufacturing machines to the old companies’ designs, while many pre-Grouping locomotives were still busily at work. In the last days of steam many expresses were both heavier and faster, and used by a much wider cross-section of the population. And despite the pressures to conform, traditional practices and the individuality of the different parts of the railways still persisted. It is this era that The Trains We Loved evokes: the sights and sounds — even the smells — of the glory days of rail travel in Britain.

David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse have produced an expansive text, rich in atmosphere but based on sound research and with substantial reference value. Portraits of the six regions and Ireland alternate with fascinating insights into how rail traffic was affected by the seasons, and the significance of holiday and school specials. Glimpses into station life shed light on the operating problems faced by staff and the devotion that went into solving them. Older readers will surely exclaim: ‘Yes, that’s exactly how it was!’ while those too young to remember will marvel at what has been lost

But The Trains We Loved is also a visual feast thirty-two splendid paintings, many previously unpublished, by Philip Hawkins, chairman of the Guild of Railway Artists, evoke the period in his own distinctive and unerringly accurate way. One hundred of the finest black and white railway photographs by Philip Alexander, Eric Treacy and other famous names make their own substantial contribution.”Notes: Illustrated by Philip Hawkins. Size: 11¼" x 8¾". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 192 pages. Tags: whitehouse hawkins 0715302922 railroads great britain history pictorial works locomotives railways trains steam engines P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Wild Side of Town by Chris Baines (£14.00)Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC] — 1986Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0563213124]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Description: Signed by the author on the half-title page — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Tables;

From the cover: “Following the success of How to Make a Wildlife Garden, Chris Baines takes his wildlife crusade beyond the garden fence and into the green deserts which make up an astonishingly high proportion of our towns and cities.

Recent destruction of woodland and hedgerow means that ‘the countryside’ can no longer sustain a rich variety of wildlife and ironically the built-up areas can provide a much needed refuge. Railway cuttings, wasteland and sympathetic parks and gardens combine to produce essential corridors, leading foxes or badgers from one feeding ground or haven to another. Birds, frogs and insects may not need the same continuity of green cover, but they do need safe breeding areas, freedom from chemical pollution, and reliable sources of food.

We spend millions of pounds a year on mowing grass — but why not let lawns grow longer and allow buttercups and daisies to flourish in them? Why not leave decaying leaves on the ground to provide shelter for hedgehogs and food for harmless creepy-crawlies?

From the cover: “For almost 150 years, the influence of the Great Western Railway’s workshops in Swindon extended well beyond the great walls which surround much of the complex, which at its height, covered over 320 acres. Although the works has now closed, its influence on the town it helped to create is as strong as ever.

In this collection of old photographs drawn from the archives of the GWR Museum in Swindon, the reader is taken on a photographic tour of the great workshops and the huge variety of activities which went on in the factory are well illustrated with many evocative pictures mainly covering the period between 1900 and 1960.

Swindon was justly famous for the quality of the locomotives and rolling stock it produced, but this book also tells the story of the men behind the machines. Rare and unpublished photographs show something of life for the railway worker both inside and outside the works, and it is hoped that this selection will give the reader some idea of what it was like to live in what many see as the archetypal ‘Railway Town’.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6½". In the Archive Photographs series. 128 pages. Tags: 9780752401539 0942313 history world transportation europe great western railway britain swindon works pictorial railroads england wiltshire otives swinson railways local transport industries photographs collections places peoples interest united kingdom european other than ireland tim bryan 075240153x archive P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Malmesbury by Dorothy Barnes (£13.00)Publisher: Chalford — 1995Binding: Paperback First Edition. [ISBN: 0752401777]Condition: Very Good.Description: In the "Archive Photograph" series. Illustrated with B&W photographs. From the introduction: “The reader will be able to see from this collection of photographs relating to Malmesbury that during the latter half of the nineteenth century, many businesses were started, schools opened, and the railway came to the town. It really was a progressive age. In 1875, Malmesbury had 240 commercial business enterprises, including three breweries and 23 public houses. There are now no breweries, many public houses have closed, and the majority of the old family firms have gone for ever. Not only have the names disappeared from the scene, but often the property has been demolished.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6½". 128 pages. Tags: malmesbury victorian period burgesses burton hill house gordon miles walter powell holloway hill cross hayes athelstan museum malmesbury cottage hospital montague chubb malmesbury union workhouse P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Muirhead's Switzerland by Findlay Muirhead (£13.00)Publisher: Macmillan & Co — 1923Binding: Hardback Condition: Poor - Cover bumpedDescription: A guide book of Switzerland, with the Chamonix and the Italian Lakes. Illustrated with colour maps.Tags: watches neutrality chocolate edelweiss cheese swiss democracy switzerland alps plants animals mountaineering basel bern geneva people locamo ascona lucerne zurich architecture chalet climbers eiger matterhorn lake mount pilatus tell’s chapel sisikon drummers basel’s fasnacht carnival alpine slopes alpabfahrt franciscan monastery madonna del sasso lower engadine region domestic covered wooden bridge kapell-brucke the tempter cathedral brienz-rothorn railway steam maloja pass spiez castle thun butterzopfe braided bread emmental rhine davos P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Khrushchev Pattern by Frank Gibney (£13.00)Publisher: Prentice-Hall International — 1961Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with some very small nicks. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.Description: From the cover: “DURING THE HALF DECADE between 1955 and 1960, men watched with dreadful fascination the uncoiling of the Khrushchev Pattern, one of the most startling switches in the history of international politics, and one of the cleverest. The leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, used his power to swing his country and the entire Communist movement along a path of “competitive coexistence” that seemed to challenge not only the tactics of Stalin’s past rule but the very premises of the Communist system. Frank Gibney shows how successfully this new tactic operated with the world’s Communist parties and their sympathizers—in the widest variety of circumstances. In some areas it posed great problems for Khrushchev, because its surface friendliness and emphasis on a Popular Front approach threatened the historic unity of Communist discipline. At moments, as in the Hungarian revolt of 1956, the entire approach had to be sacrificed to the ruthless needs of Soviet power politics. But by and large Khrushchev’s “soft sell” version of Communism proved a far more formidable menace to the Free World than Stalin’s rigid line. Although the emphasis in his policy became openly aggressive after the U-2 incident and Khrushchev’s Summit breakup in the spring of 1960, the gains made by the Khrushchev Pattern were substantial. In a world where so many of the new, uncommitted nations appeared so ready to play off East against West, the superficially reasonable Khrushchev Pattern was surely as terrible a threat as Stalin’s more obvious aggression.”Notes: Jacket designed by Robert Jonas. Size: 8¼" x 5¾". Grey boards with Red titling to the Spine. 280 pages. Tags: self-government democratization soviet-yugoslav communist-front teachers union czechoslovakia anti-communist inter-american confederation berry chaban-delmas organizations bungei-shunju international stabilization mexico-russo anti-fascist brasilei-ros intelligence nationalists israeli-arab mikhailovich trabajadores independence association aufklaerung diaz-verson gordeytchik afghanistan dzerzhinsky switzerland sovestskaya intercambio cooperation stepanovich directorate declaration gopalaswamy fundamentos committees industrial assistance abderrahim liberation betancourt eisenhower estenssoro federation indonesian indo-china P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Living Unknown Soldier by Jean-Yves Le Naour (£13.00)Publisher: William Heinemann — 2005Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0434013196]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled at the edges.Description: A 1 Story of Grief and the Great War. Illustrated with B&W photographs. From the cover: “In February 1918, a derelict soldier was discovered wandering a railway station in Lyons, France. With no memory of his name or past, no identifying possessions, marks, or documents, the soldier — who was given the name Anihelme Mangin — was sent to an asylum for the insane. When, after the Great War ended, the authorities placed the soldier’s image in newspaper advertisements in an attempt to locate his family, hundreds of ‘relatives’ claimed him — as their father or son, husband or brother who had failed to return from the front. Marshalling a vast array of material, from letters and newspaper articles to accounts of battlefield deaths, hospital reports, and police files, French historian Jean-Yves Le Naour meticulously recreates the long-forgotten story of the single soldier who came to stand for a lost generation.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 233 pages. Tags: amnesiac soldiers anthelme marcel lemay joseph monjoin paul bringmei lyon-brotteaux rail-way station prisoners asylums for the insane rodez sainte-anne brutally traumatized soldier ministry missing the armistice jean anouilh traveler without luggage german troops aveyron regional archives unknown soldier repatriate soldiers evacuations demenda praecox cadillac asylum P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?100 Years of Banking in Asia and Africa: A History of National and Grindlays Bank Limited 1863-1963 by Geoffrey Tyson (£12.50)Publisher: National & Grindlays Bank — 1963Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners. Boards lightly faded and spotted. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted. Text bright and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs.Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. [XII] 246 pages. Tags: africa and asia babu bank’s banking banks bar bombay boom borradaile boyson branch branches britain’s british bros bullion burmah burral business calcutta campbell capital captain charles chief city clove colombo commercial company corporation countries cripps currency delhi developments east eastern economic enterprise finance financial fitzwilliam formerly gillespie goberdhone gold great grindlays P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?At His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Pleasure by Evelyn Honeywill (£12.50)Publisher: The Book Guild — 1986Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0863321933]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dustwrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and top corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper, tanned at the spine and damp-stained at the top edge of the reverse visible externally at the head of the spine and top edge of the lower panel. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: From the cover: “This book provides a fresh perspective into the harsh conditions which prevailed in Japanese POW and Civilian Internment Camps during the Second World War. Stories of endurance from the infamous Burma railway to the jungle infested camps near Singapore have been symbolised by the Japanese word ‘Tenko’. This name for roll-call was to assume a terrible significance for the thousands of Europeans who were trapped in the Far East when the armies of His Imperial Majesty entered the war and flooded across South East Asia.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Tags: infamous japanese prison camps second world war girlie gander british customs official shanghai jack honywill sinking ship hms peterel japanese invasion brutal events individual sacrifice camp inmates true romance british river gunboat imperial japanese navy shanghai harbour lewis guns american gunboat u.s.s. wake japanese cruiser izumo japanese destroyer gunboat italian gunboat lepanto british community shanghai british warships regiments chinese territory P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?Garden Design by Kenneth Midgley (£12.50)Publisher: Pelham — 1977Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0720709822]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dustwrapper. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Price Clipped. Shelf cocked. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the flap: “A successful garden needs planning. Kenneth Midgley believes that success depends on certain basic principles which apply to all gardens, whatever their size. Garden Design discusses how to make the best use of the space available, how to level uneven sites, paths and drives, and the kind of plants needed for particular effects. Chapters on water and rock, town gardens, and maintenance complete a book which covers not only the general ideas of design, but also all the practical details which allow an idea to become reality.”Notes: Jacket designed by R. E. Hale. Size: 8" x 5". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 223 pages. Tags: designer’s task levelling front garden terracing steps plant material form useful trees for little gardens good-natured shrubs beginners flowering period colour theory applied the water rock town paved sitting-out area filigree clematis cottage leading low grey cypresses vegetable patch space play curving borders rounded upright narrow plot planning boundary P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Ivo Peters' Classic Steam by Mac Hawkins (£12.50)Publisher: Hawk Editions — 2000Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0952908158]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “Acknowledged as one of the finest railway photographers of his generation, Ivo Peters devoted much of his life to recording the glories of the steam age across the British Isles and Ireland from its heyday to its decline. This single volume brings together some of the very best of his work, much of it previously unpublished. Each picture was carefully selected from the photographer’s extensive library by his son, Julian, and Mac Hawkins.

As an aesthete and perfectionist Ivo Peters was unsurpassed: he took infinite care to compose each subject within a complementary panorama, reflecting the magnificence of the surroundings as well as recording the age of steam. Urban and industrial scenery was not forgotten: throughout the 1950s and early 1960s he travelled extensively visiting many colliery and ironstone lines, photographing both humble and unique steel workhorses wherever they were employed.

Containing some 120 superb examples of Ivo Peters’ craft, this magnificent volume showcases an exclusive collection of nostalgic images of steam traction. Accompanied by explanatory text based on the photographer’s own notes and writing, each picture offers an enticing glimpse of a lost era.

For maximum effect the photographs have been reproduced in duotone, adding an extra depth to the subjects and enhancing their superior quality..”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 10¾". Pictorial boards. 128 pages. Tags: 0862880580 0952908158 20th and art artist artists britain catalogs century collections covered dates design dorset engine engineering european exhibitions gauge great hawkins history individual industrial interest ireland isle ivo joint kingdom locomotives mac mainlines man midlands narrow north peters photographs photography pictorial railroads railway railways region scotland sheds somerset southern steam styles technology trains transportation united wales western works P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Tales of the Old Railwaymen by Tom Quinn (£12.50)Publisher: Newton Abbot: David & Charles — 1998Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0715305441]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight but with a hint of toning to the very margins of the leaves. Description: Illustrated by way of: Frontispiece; Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Colour Drawings;Notes: Size: 10¾" x 7¾". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 192 pages. Tags: railways railroads britain employees history steam locomotives trains railway reminiscences workers british isles P&P: UK 1st £5.25. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £7.76. EU Air £7.85. ROW Surface £7.76. ROW Air £14.22Click Image or Pop Window?They Saw it Happen 1897-1940 by Asa Briggs (£12.50)Publisher: Basil Blackwell — 1966Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good — in Good Dustwrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Price Clipped. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: 3rd Impression. From the flap: “Recent history springs to life most vividly in eyewitness accounts of men and events. In this volume Asa Briggs collects a large number of such accounts covering the crowded period from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to Sir Winston Churchill's assumption of office in 1940.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Burgundy boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 512 pages. Tags: boer war queen vlctoria edwardian poverty district railway revolution transport edwardian leeds edwardian politics joseph chamberlain tariff reform campaign chamberlain smith llberal revival rise labour asquith lloyd george parliament act suffragettes industrial warfare tillett mann social legislation labour exchanges naval rivalry scott the south pole delhi P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Train Journeys of the World: A Spectacular Voyage of Discovery Along 30 of the World's Most Exciting Rail Routes by Susan Gordon (£12.50)Publisher: Automobile Association — 1994Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 074950658X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and top corners with commensurate ruffling to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Reprint. [First: 1993] From the cover: “Since the opening of the first railway over 150 years ago, train journeys have evoked an air of romance and adventure, linked with the excitement of new places and the opening up of whole continents. Train Journeys of the World explores 30 of the most spectacular and famous routes in the world, from the magnificent, nostalgic Orient-Express line to the modern, high-speed efficiency of the Japanese ‘bullet train’. Nineteen modern-day explorers recount their adventures as they travel all around the world — through Mongolia, along the Nile, from coast to coast in Australia, down the length of Italy, across America and Canada, into the high Andes, around the Aegean, into the heart of Africa. The names of the trains evoke their own special magic — the Mandalay Express, Al Andalus, the Sunset Limited, the Glacier Express. The story of each route, from Scotland to Chile, Thailand to Norway, is told in detail, capturing the atmosphere of the people and places, the enclosed world of the train and the greater landscape beyond the windows. Maps have been specially drawn to accompany each route, and the book is full of superb, evocative photographs. And there is even information to help you make the journeys yourself, should you feel tempted…”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Paul Atterbury. Size: 12" x 8½". Matching Pictorial boards. 224 pages. Tags: gordon paul atterbury 074950658x railroad travel voyages around world trains railways interest writing places peoples transportation railroads essays travelogues pictorials P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?West of England by Colin G. Maggs (£12.50)Publisher: Budding — 2000Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1840151862]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ.Description: First in this edition [1998 - Sutton]. Illustrated with B&W photographs. From the cover: “Through a collection of superb black and white photographs with detailed captions, and a lengthy introduction, he shows us the history of the railways in the West of England from their beginnings to the present day. Here are locomotives in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and south-west Wiltshire. In almost 300 black and white photographs and ephemera, this book from one of our foremost railway historians brings the railways of this area to life as never before. It will be welcomed by steam enthusiasts countrywide.”Notes: Size: 10½" x 7¾". Pictorial boards. 184 pages. Tags: railways transport locomotives branch lines engine coaches freight tunnels railway docks broad gauge train truro railway architecture railway buses railway air services gwr lswr great western railway didcot broad gauge standard gauge bristol exeter railway chard branch 150234 forder viaduct saltash germans sidings sleepers transoms rolling stock railways west england blandford forum goods yard railhead radstock seaton junction market-garden traffic north cornwall ballast train cheddar 48431 lms bath green park 48431 48706 coal wagons writhlington colliery radstock cornish riviera express bullion van powderham. 6024 4700 didcot railway centre. P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Locomotives of British Railways L.M.S. Group by H. C Casserley; L. L. Asher; (£12.00)Publisher: Andrew Dakers — 1955Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Good+ - in Good+ DJ. DJ somewhat faded, frayed at head and tial with small closed tears to the edges of the upper panel and a small amount of loss at head of lower panel. Text bright and tight.Description: A complete and fully illustrated record of all classes of steam locomotives acquired from the London Midland and Scottish Railway by British Railways, together with full details of those built subsequent to January 1948, to L.M.S. design. This volume embraces all locomotives numbered by British Railways between 40000 and 59999, the block of numbers allocated to the L.M.S. engines. Illustrated with B&W photographs.Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". 114 pages. Tags: british rail steam locomotives L.M.S. P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Best Green Walks in Bristol by Derek Robinson (£12.00)Publisher: Westcountry — 1994Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1898386099]Condition: Very Good. Lower wrap a touch creased otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: First in this edition. Maps. From the cover: “If you live in Bristol, and you want to go for a walk in green countryside, you don’t have to drive to the Cotswolds, the Mendips, or the Bronte country. Plenty of beautiful walks are waiting for you, all in Bristol (or on its edge), and all Different. They’re rich in trees and birds, cliffs and gorges, meadows and streams. Best selling Bristol writer Derek Robinson tells you where they are, how to find them, and — most important of all — where you can park. He also tells you what sort of walk it is t long or short, muddy or dry, rugged or easy. So you’ll know what to wear, and how much time to allow. Also whether or not it’s a good idea to take small children and/or elderly relatives.”Notes: Size: B Format (7¾" x 5¼"). 88 pages. Tags: blaise castle kingsweston penpole railway path frome frenchay avon gorge cumberland basin pill prior’s wood portbury ashton court kennel lodge purdown stoke park abbotts pool failand nightingale valley leigh woods stoke leigh bourton combe P&P: UK 1st £2.38. UK 2nd £2.20. EU Surface £2.56. EU Air £2.86. ROW Surface £2.56. ROW Air £4.30Click Image or Pop Window?A New Historical Geography of England after 1600 by Edited by H. C. Darby (£11.50)Publisher: C.U.P. — 1986Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0521310377]Condition: Good. An adequate reading copy only. Notably rubbed at the outside edges of the cover and spine. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted.Description: Reprint. From the cover: “A New Historical Geography of England after 1600 takes the story of the development of the English landscape through the agricultural and industrial revolutions to the end of the nineteenth century. There are also descriptions of the face of the country at 1800 before the coming of the railways, at 1850 and again at the end of that century. For all students of historical geography this is an essential book. Many others interested in the history of the landscape of England will also find it valuable and illuminating. It is illustrated by 94 specially drawn maps and diagrams.”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). In the Cambridge Paperback Library series. 460 pages. Tags: early railway changing face england woollen industry silk industry canals waterways agricultural coalmining textile manufacturing markets gardens population change enclosure coastwise shipment marling liming wool worsted boulton watt cotton P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?Great Western in Colour by O. S. [Oswald Stevens] Nock (£11.50)Publisher: New Orchard Editions — UndatedBinding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1850790183]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: Notes: Illustrated by Clifford & Wendy Meadway. In the Great Railways of the World series. Tags: great western railway history britain services england 1947 railways oswald stevens nock clifford wendy meadway 1850790183 the world first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Manchester United by Ivan Ponting & Cliff Butler (£11.50)Publisher: Headline — 2003Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: B004W3V730]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Top edge of the dust wrapper somewhat rubbed with slight fraying to the top corner of the lower panel. Pages very gently age-tanned. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Tables;

From the cover: “If there is one football club which personifies the glory, the glamour and the controversy of the British national game, then it is Manchester United. Somehow the Red Devils possess a unique aura, some magical but intangible ingredient that sets them apart from the rest. Their star-spangled story is one of compelling drama, encompassing serial triumphs spread over their 125 years of life, but also humble beginnings in a railway yard, two cash crises which went perilously close to putting them out of existence and the stark horror of the Munich air disaster.

The Essential History of Manchester United examines every key event in the club’s history, together with the men who became heroes wearing the famous red shirt, from pioneers such as Billy Meredith, through to Sir Matt Busby’s three magnificent teams and on to the heady era of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Immortal names such as Carey, Edwards, Charlton, Law, Best, Cantona, Keane, Beckham and van Nistelrooy appear alongside comprehensive statistics to create an indispensable reference book for all who march beneath the Old Trafford banner.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Norman Whiteside. Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. In the Essential History Of series. 319 pages. Tags: manchester united soccer team history football club teams england association players matches ivan ponting cliff butler norman whiteside b004w3v730 essential first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Scratch A Surveyor...: The Nearest Anyone Will Ever Get to Telling the Story of Drivers Jonas, Traced Through the Diaries, Letters, Memos, Reports Which Might Have Been Written, and Some That Were, Between 1725 and 1975 by Hugh Barty- King (£11.50)Publisher: Heinemann — 1975Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 043404900X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Edges of the text block lightly spotted.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs.Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XIV] 273 pages. Tags: agents and brown business capability coal commutation crown drivers enclosure england english epping estate families family firm for forest helping history isles john jonas land nash nationalization organisations over park purchase railway regents scilly southwark studies surveying surveyors the tithe valuers wandsworth P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72